I am all about Rome, The Wire, Six-Feet Under, and Deadwood.
I am HBO's willing bitch.
We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.
Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gus - Sep 11, 2005 4:26:39 pm PDT #6485 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
DavidS - Sep 11, 2005 4:27:55 pm PDT #6486 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
What do you like about Rome, Gus? It's getting decent reviews but I don't have a sense of it. Which era is it set in?
Nutty - Sep 11, 2005 4:31:49 pm PDT #6487 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
All I know about Rome is that it involves togas, and frontal nudity, and possibly prancing.
Someone on my LJ friendslist asked whether people in the Roman era really shaved their armpits, e.g., and the classicist who is also on my friendslist noted that the Romans did not shave; mostly, they plucked body hair or singed it back to the root to get that cool, hairless look. Yipe!
Of course, these were also people who had no problem with barfing. Historical folks, they are strange.
tommyrot - Sep 11, 2005 4:33:31 pm PDT #6488 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Salon article: Let's Iraq and roll
In a surreal twist on the public demonstration, the Pentagon put on a show Sunday to mark 9/11 and honor U.S. troops serving in the war.
OK, this part disturbs me:
The march started at the Pentagon and went across Arlington Memorial Bridge to a site adjacent to the Reflecting Pool near the Lincoln Memorial, where country singer Clint Black serenaded the crowd with vague, seemingly nostalgic platitudes of word and song.
Black told the crowd he's not a politician. "I'm gonna let the music do most of the talking," he said, before he launched into a new song with the refrain: "The code of the west is black and white, the good guys and the bad. You always know who's wrong or right, by the color of their hats."
So, um, he's saying that people fall neatly into two categories, 'good' and 'evil,' and that it's easy to tell who is in what category? and he's saying this, what, without irony?
Consuela - Sep 11, 2005 4:36:16 pm PDT #6489 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I get the sense (I may be wrong) that country music really isn't about the irony.
Gus - Sep 11, 2005 4:37:19 pm PDT #6490 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
What do you like about Rome, Gus?
Sweaty humans, engaged with the issues that will effect their lives.
DavidS - Sep 11, 2005 4:40:11 pm PDT #6491 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sweaty humans, engaged with the issues that will effect their lives.
Sweat = dramedy gold. (cf., Body Heat, 12 Angry Men)
Nutty - Sep 11, 2005 4:41:11 pm PDT #6492 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Sweat, and skirts! Short skirts, if I remember Spartacus aright.
Also, possibly, some depravity.
Daisy Jane - Sep 11, 2005 4:41:34 pm PDT #6493 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I get the sense (I may be wrong) that country music really isn't about the irony.
I dunno, have you ever heard James McMurtry?
Consuela - Sep 11, 2005 4:42:12 pm PDT #6494 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
See, I figured I'd be proven wrong. But Clint Black? Doesn't sound much like he's into irony.